For anyone who wants a truly progressive Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom is bad news.

  • surfrock66@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No one likes the 2 party system, it sucks. But in the 2 party system, that’s the deal, you vote for the Dem or it’s a +1 to the R. I don’t like it either, but demonizing the Dems at this point to get people to stay home hands it to the R’s. This rhetoric becomes dangerous. Saying you don’t like the game doesn’t mean you can sit it out without consequences.

    • gnuthing@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      Dems are the definition of controlled opposition:

      a false protest movement in which a government or status quo authority controls both sides of a dispute. On one side lies the status quo authority, but on the other side lies those the status quo authority also control. Having the latter provides the appearance of a legitimate opposition, but in reality, it ceases all legitimate opposition. What’s left is just a shell of opposition, one that dishonestly pretends to oppose, but in fact stifles opposition.

      I’m done voting for that. Dems want my vote, they can earn it by running socialists